Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:54:46 -0700 From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rich Haney <rich@haneys.net> Subject: Re: What is the correct way to name my machine? Message-ID: <01050417544600.02640@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105042031410.2601-100000@home.haneys.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105042031410.2601-100000@home.haneys.net>
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On Friday 04 May 2001 17:34, Rich Haney wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael O'Henly wrote: > > My internet access is provided via cable modem and DHCP. The result is a > > default machine name that looks like "h123-123-123-123.gv.shawcable.net" > > (those "123's" are actually my IP address). > > 1. I'd like to change the default name to something else so that wherever > > the above is used now, the new name would be used instead. What do I > > update to make this change? > Unless they're going to delegate this IP to something where you > can maintain it, they would need to make the change for you in their DNS > as the authority for the netblock. Not likely. Sorry. I should have said this more clearly. I meant a local change only. If my ISP wants to think of me as "h123-123-123-123.gv.shawcable.net", then great. ;-) > > 2. I'd like to create some aliases that may also be used to refer to the > > machine. Under Linux, I'd do this once in /etc/hosts and the aliases > > would become globally available. Is this true of FreeBSD as well? > Adding them to /etc/hosts doesn't make them globally available > (unless, by 'globally available' you mean on the entire machine). > /etc/hosts is strictly local to the machine. That's what I meant. Just wanted to be sure I wasn't overlooking something if I updated /etc/hosts only. Thanks, Rich. M. -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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